Part of the Council's Centennial programs, Global Ethical Dialogues is a multi-year project that engages societies across the world in the quest for a global ethic—shared values with which to tackle problems that transcend national boundaries.

We move the site of the dialogue out of New York and the West and conduct it in Latin America, Asia, the Middle East, and Africa.

We take seriously a commitment to equality of voice and equality of respect.

We seek not an outcome or a policy, but a method, a way of engaging, debating, working together, and building long-term networks of trust, across religions, cultures, histories, and ethnicities.

Global Ethical Dialogues began in June 2013 with visits to Argentina, Uruguay, and Brazil, followed by North America and the Balkans in 2014. There are plans for site visits to Japan, Burma, and Indonesia in 2015.